Tribe

I call it Tribing. The act of weeding people out of your life, to see who is going to be your real family. I'm not knocking "blood" family. I am talking about those people who are with you, because of you. You know, those people who will answer no matter what. In today's culture, it really is a dying breed. A mythological creature. Everyone is so busy. And I get it. I too am crazy busy. That said, I have a core group {a mix of blood and friends} that would drop everything for me. And I for them. The kind of people that if I called at 2:00 am and said come now, they wouldn't ask why. They would already be on the way.

I am a meditative man by nature. Meaning, if I lived in a cabin in the middle of the woods, and saw no one for weeks, I would totally be cool with that. But because of who I am, and the work I do, people are naturally drawn to me. It's cool. I dig the human connection. But in a perfect world, I need very little of it.?

Tribing. Who is in your life and why? Who is adding value and building you up? Who is the person that is going to look past your imperfections and say," I got you"? Because they are your tribe. And your tribe will change throughout your life. As you change, most likely they will change. When I was growing up, social media was not a thing. We stayed within our natural environment. As we got older, we went off to school and maybe took a job. Our circle started to change. Remember getting your school or work friends together with your friends from home? Didn't always work as planned. And that was okay. Because we evolve. And then we move on. Do I have people still connected to me from my past? Of course I do. But there is a difference from being connected, and being in my tribe.?

I look at my tribe like coins. I'd rather have 4 quarters, than 100 pennies...not that the pennies don't add value. There is something intimate about it. I can give more of my attention to those quarters. But those 100 pennies....not so much. A tribe is a very sacred thing to me. I would move heaven and earth for them. I have. And they for me. It's not a competition. It's a frequency. The energy is undeniable. And yes, frequency can be faked. But you cannot sustain it. You are who you are. And the sooner we accept that, the sooner our tribe will appear.?

Be authentically you. Stay connected on FaceBook. Share a text. Grab an occasional?cup of coffee. Just know that they are not in your tribe. That 2:00 am, come now call will eventually happen to all of us. Running through a list and calling a bunch of people who are not in your tribe, leaves us defeated?when we're at our worst. Because life happens. And more often than not, it will happen several times in our lives. Start Tribing now.